AIM:To identify the role of the Slave Trade in

developing British ports such as Liverpool and Bristol.

SUCCESS CRITERIAYou can explain why some ports were so

successful during the slave trade.You can outline 2 benefits to Liverpool as a

result of being involved in the slave trade.

In 1770 around 100,000 slaves were carried to the New World from Africa and around half of these were British ships.

The British were hugely involved in the Slave trade, more so than any other nation in the late 1700s.

In 1771 there were 4 main slaving ports in the UK. The table below shows the number of ships and slaves they carried for the year 1771.

London, Liverpool and Bristol accounted for over 90% of British involvement in the slave trade.

Port Number of Ships

Slaves

Liverpool 107 29,250

London 58 8,136

Bristol 23 8,810

Lancaster 4 950

Collect a map of the UK.

On your map locate and label the main British Slaving ports – LIVERPOOLLONDONBRISTOLLANCASTER

You can use an atlas to help.

BBC - Learning Zone Class Clips - John Hawkins and the Slave Trade - History Video

Why Were These Ports So successful?With a partner, discuss what you think might

be important for a slave port to be successful?

Think about the Triangular Trade route and what was needed to make the slave trade profitable.

Why were these ports so successful?With a partner, discuss what you think might

be important for a slave port to be successful?

Think about GEOGRAPHY, ACCESS TO MANUFACTURED GOODS and NUMBER OF MERCHANTS (buyers and sellers of goods).

Copy this diagraminto your notes

It is estimated that the port of Liverpool made around £300,000 profit each year from the slave trade. The rest of Britain's ports approximately made the same.

This combined sum would be worth about £300 million today.

Clearly profits from the slave trade made some people and cities very wealthy indeed. BBC - Learning Zone Class Clips - Scotland and the slave trade - History Video

You will now be issued with further information on how Liverpool benefited from the slave trade

and tasks to complete.

Liverpool Case StudyWhen you are asked to compare two sources. This is how to approach this type of question:

• Sources C and D agree about………………………………

• Source C says ‘______________________’ and Source D says ‘___________________________’

Say what the sources agree on and give a short quote

from each source to support your answer.